Principle of Equivalence

The Bechtler

Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence is the first retrospective devoted to the Mexican American artist’s work. The exhibition traces Jaramillo’s (b. 1939) practice from the mid-1960s to the present, featuring examples of her early work, paintings from her breakthrough Curvilinear series, her handmade paper works, and a selection of recent paintings, which together reveal her enduring engagement with and significant contributions to abstraction. Drawing on her ongoing study of subjects as wide-ranging as physics, the cosmos, archaeology, mythology, and modernist design philosophies, Jaramillo’s work examines the relationship between the earthly and the metaphysical and explores the potential for abstraction to offer alternate ways of understanding our world.

Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence is organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, and curated by Erin Dziedzic, former Director of Curatorial Affairs. The Bechtler’s presentation is organized by Bechtler Curator Katia Zavistovski.